At least 6. Not only have they found a way to exceed the salary cap, they have also found a way around just having 13 players on the pitch. Expect to see 16 Cherry and White's at any one time next season.

Give Leeds the 16 selected by McDermott instead and we'd still lose......

Call me a pessimist,but with no decent new signings, a lack of apparent interest in bringing Amor back to the club and the continued non selection of the likes of Singleton, Hood, D.Smith, Keinhorst, Chisholm, Roche etc in favour of the same sad old faces (geez we're now even seeing the return of more than proven failed newly appointed water carriers into the threequarter options

).....then I see nowt but bad times ahead. Can see more decent young kids and Burrow moving on to other clubs whilst 'dad's army' continues to creak and groan towards a sad debilitating moribund decline into SL whipping boys status.

You are a pessimist but some of your points are correct. At least when B McD was interviewed about interest in Moltzen he said "his name is on a list along with other names..." so something is happening albeit very slowly! My concern is statements are made by GH about quality signings but we always leave it so late that we could end up with a Ben Cross level signing.

With Centre maybe being one of our priorities for next season would we have been interested in Turner? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/18686620

With Centre maybe being one of our priorities for next season would we have been interested in Turner? www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/rugby-league/18686620

Not much of an upgrade on Ablett, IMO.

given we have 4 of the top players in the league in the other 5 outside back positions, all of whom are young (Hardaker, Jones-Bishop, Watkins, Hall), LC is the position we should be looking to make a quality signing.

Step forward quality left centre, scorer of 21 SL trys last year, and 19 so far this year, and Leeds boy.

Mr Ryan Atkins, currently of the Warrington parish.

You think we can match warringtons pay books?

Atkins' nickname was also mentioned by a Warrington team-mate on Sky last week ..... not that it was ever a secret.

The plane boss........

Nothing on back chat tonight

30 minutes I will never get back! Stevo is so annoying. In fact I found all of them annoying bar andy Wilson, the only one who appeared not to just shout

Stevo is annoying because sometimes he has a decent point but can't expand on it and ends just repeating himself. It would be better with 3 non sky journalists similar to cricket writers and Sunday supplement

On twitter Andy Wilson said he did not get chance to name mystery player the Rhinos are supposed to be chasing/signed as it's only a whisper at the moment. I'd bet that the name has already appeared on SS!

It's Leroy Cudjoe

Is this wishful thinking or it is happening? I thought he was under contract?

Have you just thought of a name and pulled it out of the sky nantwiche??

A name completely plucked from the sky but what about Michael Jennings? I thought I read somewhere that he had been dropped down to 3rd grade rugby. Not sure if that's true with him being in NSW team?

He was dropped to the Toyota cup team Ferdy but has pledged his future to Penrith now plus there'd be at least 6/7 NRL clubs queing up for Jennings were he to leave.

What, you mean Andy Wilson's much publicised rumour turned out to just be a publicity stunt? Well I never.

All the credibility of Nosey Parker that lad.

I didn't really think we had much chance TBH. Someone young playing SOO would rarely leave aus unless trying to get away from some demons. If I am honest I can't really see a big signing materialising for us from australlia.

There are better ways of promoting a publicity stunt than hiding in a reply to an individual in a twitter feed.

Dunno, it seemed to work out pretty well for him!

Wonder how many more people tuned in to Backchat that wouldn't normally have bothered, based on that single, free tweet?

He is. Although I wish he was right.

One I said other day is an overseas player. No name whatsoever, just told a big overseas signing.

Probably Petero Civoneceva, bring the average age of the pack down.